Mattress-filler.



No. 697,045. Patented Apr. s, |902.

G. W.. WAREHAM.

MATTRESS FILLER.

(Appliqation tiled Mar. 28, 1901.) (No Model.)

WITNESSES UNTTEE STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE IV. VAREHAM, OFIITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

MATTRESS-FILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,045, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed March 28,1901. Serial No. 53,191. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that 1, GEORGE WNVAREHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frictionless Mattress -Fillers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mattress filling machines.

Among the objects of the invention are to provide a machine to fill mattresses of various sizes, to place the filling material in the mattress without friction between the tick and filling material, and of such construction lthat the filling can be done conveniently, quickly, and perfectly.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view with portion broken away; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view.

The same characters refer to like parts in the views.

The numeral 1 designates the frame, provided withfsuitable legs 2. To the four corners of the frame 1 are arranged sprocketwheels 3, over each two of which runs an endless chain a, provided with transverse strips 5, on which rests the removing-sheets 6 and 6', which carry the filling material and form a conveyer 36 for the latter. On the rear end of each sheet is permanently secured an end piece 7, the side piece S being independent of said sheets. The rear end pieces 7, with the sides 8 and a vertical reciprocating gate 32, form a rectangular box, in which is placed and measured the filling material prior to the same being forced into the tick. The removing-sheet 6' slides transversely over the sheet 6, by which the width of the filling material is determined to suit the Width of the tick. This adjustment is obtained through the medium of a sliding rail 9, the ends of which are attached to sprocket-chains lO. On a shaft 13 are keyed the sprocket-wheels 11, which are connected to similar sprocketwheels 12 by means of the chains 10.` Byrotating the crank 14, with which the shaft 13 is provided, the raiLQ can be moved in either direction. The rail 9 extends beyond the end of the side 3 and is provided with an angleiron d, an arm of which projects over the face of the end piece 7 of sheet 6, said arm having a hole or perforation arranged to receive a pin b in said end piece. When the removing-sheets are in position to receive the filling material, the pin b projects through the hole or perforation in the angle-plate a,Where upon the end piece 7, together with the sheet 6@ will move back and forth With the rail 9. When said removing-sheets are fed forward, the pin b withdraws from said perfpration, and upon return of said sheets renters the perforation, the angle-iron serving as a stop.

The front end of the machine is provided with two uprights 15, carrying the shaft 16, and the latter is provided with radial arms 17, on each end of which rotates the roller-18, which latter is lowered by 'moving the lever 19 so as to place the roller in the position shown by dotted lines in Fig.'2. The roller is rotated by means of the sprocket-wheels 20, running loosely on the shaft 16, and 21, attached to the roller-shaft 22, and chain 23, running over the sprocket-Wheels, the wheel 2O being rotated by a similar wheel 25, attached to Wheel 20, chain 24, sprocket-Wheel 26, gears 27 28, and hand-crank 29, the latter also operating the sprocketwheels 3 and endless chains 4, carrying the transverse slats 5, on

vwhich the removing-sheets G and 6 rest.

To the front end of the machine are arranged the tick-supports 30:30', over which the tick is placed prior to filling, the latter being held to its place in relation to the supports 30 30 while being filled by the springclamps 31 31', the support 30 and spring 31 being attached to the sliding rail 9, by which' they assume the same location as rail 9 to suit the width of the tick to be filled.

The vertical sliding gate 32 moves in guides 33 and is raised and lowered by means of the cables 34., attached to both ends of the gate and running over pulleys 35 and secured to the shaft 16, by which when the latter is rotated the gate 32 is raised or lowered.

Underneath the chains 4 are arranged a guideway 37 to support the chains 11 and prevent the latter from sagging when the filling material is placed on the oonveyer 36.

In the operation of the machine the sliding rail 9 is moved toward the center of the machine to a position to suit the Width of the tick to be filled by rotating the crank 14, which moves the chains 10 10, and the rail 9 IOO holding it in that condition temporarily. The

filling material is then placed on the conveyer 36 and distributed properly thereon between the sides 8 8, ends 7 7, and gate 32, which is then in its lowered position. The roller 18 is then lowered by the lever 19 being partially the latter to the position shown by the dotted 1 line, Fig. 2. This position of the roller 18 compresses the filling material to the proper thickness to suit the tick, which being on the supports 30 30 is in a position toreceive the filling material. The rotation of the shaft 16 also lifts the gate 32 by the cords or cables 34, winding on shaft 16, and opens that end of the box to permit the ejection of the filling material. The crank 29 is then rotated, which through the sprocket-wheel and chain mechanism rotates the roller 18. Simultaneously therewith the sprocket-wheels 3 are rotated and the slats 5 of the endless chains engage suitable projections on the bottom of the removing-sheets 6 6', forming the conveyer, moving them forward in unison with the movement of the roller 18, thus compressing the filling material and feedingit with the removing-sheets 6 6 into the tiek, which as it is filled is gradually forced off of the supports 30 30', and the movement continuing the tick is rapidly and evenly filled with the filling material. It will be noted that neither the rail 9 nor the side pieces 8 enter the tick, the spring-clamps 31 3l permitting the tick to be freed from the supports as it is filled until the operation is wholly accomplished. The roller 18 is then raised by actuating the lever 19, which also drops the gate 32, and the machine is then backed by turning the crank 29, which withdraws the removingsheets 6 6 from between the ticking and filling material, allowing the filled mattress to be removed ready for the upholsterer. The machine is then ready for filling an other tick by a repetition of the above operation.

By this machine mattress-ticks are quickly,

conveniently, and perfectly filled in a superior manner and the compressing and feeding of the fillingv material simultaneously accomplished. Also the machine can be quickly and conveniently readj usted to iill any-sized tick by simply operating the crank 14 to increase or diminish the width of the conveyer 36 or rectangular receptacle formed by the gate 32, sides 8 8, ends 7 7, and removingsheets 6 6.

The advantage of the radial adjustment of the roller 18 lies in the fact that said roller can be readily raised up out of the way of the advantage is also obtained by this construction in the ease with which the thickness of the filling material may be regulated, the use of adjusting-bolts, dac., being entirely dispensed with.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A mattress-filling machine comprising a supporting-frame, an adjustable roller mounted therein, a sliding gate, and means for simultaneously adjusting said roller and operatingsaid gate, as set forth.

2. A mattress-filling machine comprising a frame, a roller mounted therein, means for adjusting said roller angularly, a conveyer comprising two removing-sheets, means for varying the width of said conveyer,and means for simultaneously operating said conveyer and rotating said roller, as set forth.

3. A mattress-filling machine comprising a supporting-frame,an adjustable roller mounted therein, means for adjustingl the same, a conveyer, a sliding gate, and connections between said roller and said gate, whereby they are moved simultaneously, as set forth.

4. A mattress-filling machine comprising a su pporting-frame,an adjustable roller mounted therein, means for adjusting the same, a conveyer, asliding gate, connections between said roller and said gate, whereby they are moved simultaneously, and means for simultaneously operating said conveyer and rotating said roller, substantially as set forth.

5. A mattress-filling machine comprising a supporting-frame,an adjustable roller mounted therein, means for adjusting the same, a conveyer, a sliding gate, a lever pivoted in said frame and having connections with said roller, and connections between said lever and said sliding gate, substantially as set forth.

6. A mattress-filling machine comprising a supporting-frame, a shaft mounted therein and having radial arms, a roller mounted between said arms, a lever connected to said shaft, a conveyer, a sliding gate, and connections between said lever and said gate, substantially as set forth.

7. A mattress-filling machine comprisinga supporting-frame, a shaft mounted therein and having radial arms, sprocket wheels mounted loosely on said shaft, a roller mounted between said arms and carrying sprocket- Wheels on each end, chains connecting the sprocket-wheels of said roller with those of said shaft, means for rotating said latter sprocket-wheels, a lever connected to said shaft, a conveyer, a sliding gate, and connections between said lever and said gate, substantially as set forth.

8. A mattress-filling machine comprising a supporting-frame, a conveyer mounted therein, removing-sheets arranged to be fed thereby, sprocket-chains arranged to vary the relative positions of said removing-sheets, a slid- ICO IIO

ing gate mounted in said frame, vmeans for operating the same and means for operating said conveyer, as set forth.

9. A mattress-filling machine comprising a 5 supporting-frame, a conveyer mounted therein, removing-sheets arranged to be fed thereby, a rail connected to one of said removingsheets, means for adjusting said rail, and means for operating said conveyer, substan- Io tially as set forth.

l0. A mattress-lling machine comprising a supporting-frame, a conveyer mounted therein, removing-sheets arranged to be fed thereby, sprocket-wheels mounted in said frame,

I5 chains connecting said wheels, a rail connected to one of said removing-sheets and also to said chains, means for rotating said sprocketwheels, and means for operating said conveyer, substantially as set forth.

2o l1. Amattress-illing machine comprisinga supporting-frame, a conveyer mounted therein, tick-supports one of which is adjustable with relation to the other, removing-sheets arranged to be fed by said conveyer, and

25 means for simultaneously adjusting said ticksupports and said removing sheets, as set forth.

12. A mattress-iillin g machine comprsin g a supporting-frame, a conveyer mounted there- 3o in, removing-sheets arranged to be fed thereby, a rail connected to one of said removingsheets, tick-supports, one of whichs connected to said rail, and means for adjusting said rail, substantially as set forth.

13. Amattress-flling machine comprisinga 35 supporting-frame, a roller mounted therein, means for adjusting said roller radially, a sliding gate, connections between said roller and said gate whereby they are both operated simultaneously, a conveyer, means for operat- 4o ling the same, removing-sheets carried by said conveyer, and means for adjusting the width thereof, substantially as set forth.

14. Amattress-Iilling machine oomprisinga supporting-frame, a roller mounted therein, 45 means for adjusting said roller radially, a sliding gate, connections between said roller and said gate whereby they are both operated simultaneously, a conveyer, means for operating the same, removing-sheets carried by 5o said conveyer, a rail connected t-o one of said removing-sheets, tick-supports one of which is connected to said rail, and means for varying the position of said rail, substantially as set forth. 5 5

In testimony. whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. WAREHAM.

EVitnesses:

GEO. W. THOMPSON, SAMUEL E. HUMPHREYs. 

